This is a manually curated topical guide to the content on this site to facilitate the discovery of articles on specific subjects. Some articles are listed under more than one main topic.

Note: This list excludes additions to the Bryce Haymond Translation (BHT) which can be found in full at its own link. Here is the post in which I introduced this topical guide. This list is current as of April 19, 2023.

Animals

Animals Don’t Seem to Worship God, So Did Humans Invent God?

Apostasy/Apocalypse

May we all Apostatize, and experience the Apocalypse: A Mystical View

Art

My ego has been crucified…

Atheism

• Can Atheists be Mystics or have Mystical Experience?
• Are Mystics Atheists?

Beliefs

Envisioning Reality: Beliefs Become our Communal Reality

Body

• Is our Brain the Source of our Life? Is Matter the Source of Mind/Spirit? A Contemplative Mysticism View
• Considering the Mind-Body Problem Mystically
• The Body-Mind is a Temporary Form of our Divine Identity

Brain

Is our Brain the Source of our Life? Is Matter the Source of Mind/Spirit? A Contemplative Mysticism View

Buddhism

• Learning Vipassana: My First Guided Meditation on Methods Podcast
• “Are More People Achieving Stream Entry These Days?” with guest Culadasa on Deconstructing Yourself
• The Falling Away of Ego Consciousness in Hinduism and Buddhism
• The “Hidden Treasure” of God in Mormonism and Buddhism
• Video: Harvard Buddhist Psychologist on the Constructed “Self”
• The Book of Mormon as Terma, and Joseph Smith as Tertön

Children

• Do we Give Birth to God’s Children? A Mystical Interpretation
• Ken Wilber’s Fallacious “pre/trans fallacy” and the Condescension of Children

Christianity

• Was Jesus’ First Instruction to “Repent”? A Contemplative Interpretation of the Greek
• “I AM You”
• Have You Seen the Christ?
• A Mystical View of Universal Salvation
• Misattributed St. Francis Quote “The One You Are Looking For…”?
• The Problem with Traditional Proselytism: A Mystical Perspective
• Trinitarian Symbolism in terms of other Metaphysical Philosophy, Theology, and Science
• Did Jesus Ever Doubt His Oneness in God?
• A Mystical Interpretation of Jesus’ Parable of the Tares
• The Saving Power of “Christ” Consciousness
• Jesus isn’t coming, but Christ is already here
• The “Lamb of God”: A Mystical Symbol of Divine Purity in the true Self
• Who is “the Devil”? A Mystical Interpretation
• What is “Seeing” Christ? An Interspiritual, Mystical, and Psychospiritual Perspective
• My ego has been crucified…
• Being Perfect in our Imperfections: The Wounds of God
• A Mystical Reinterpretation of the Mormon (Christian) view of the Nature of God
• My Interpretations of the Divine that differ from Traditional Judeo-Christianity
• Who is the “Only Begotten”? A Mystical Interpretation
• Reflections on Rohr’s opening of “The Universal Christ” Conference
• Meeting Richard Rohr
• The many “Christs” and “Messiahs” that preceded Jesus
• A Mystical Interpretation of the Messiah Rebuilding the Temple, or Christ Coming to the Temple
• The Two Deaths in Mystical Christianity
• Qualia, Consciousness, Christ, and Cosmos
• Is God or Christ a Male?
• Reconstructing Mormonism’s and Christianity’s Jesus/Christ
• “Canticle of the Sun,” by St. Francis of Assisi, and Joseph Smith’s “Olive Leaf”
• Notes on Christian Mysticism from a Seminar with Bernard McGinn
• Is Sam Harris Unaware of “No-Self” in Jesus’ Sacrifice?
• Mary Magdalene (2018) and her Witness of Christ and the Kingdom
• Christians are Made Christs by Anointing
• Sacrificing Ego-Self in Judaism and Christianity
• “Let Him Who Is Without Sin Cast the First Stone”
• Worshiping Jesus or Christ?
• Mystical Experience is Christianity’s Savior
• The Mystical Meaning of Christmas
• This Glorious Infant
• “Christ Has No Body But Yours,” a Poem
• Sam Harris Talks Favorably of Jesus?
• Is Christianity not Literally True?
• We Awaken in Christ’s Body, by Symeon
• Our True Identity
• I AM is the Way, the Truth, and the Life
• The Greatest Commandments are One
• As Jesus, our “Natural Man” Must Die Too
• I am in the Father, and the Father in Me

Climate

A Mystical Perspective on the Climate Emergency

Commercialism

• An Industrial Designer’s Conscious Manifesto on our Capitalist System of Making Unlimited “Products”
• How can Realization lead to more Intentional Consumption?
• The Next Chapter of ThyMindOMan.com: Living in the Gift
• A Meditation on Supply Chains and Adding Real Value in the World

Community

• The Lone and Dreary World of Modern Life and Connecting With Each Other Again
• The Nuclear Family, Communal Breakdown, & Mysticism
• Envisioning Reality: Beliefs Become our Communal Reality
• A New Facebook Group “Reconstructing Mormonism”
• Online Meditations, Friend Chats, and New Meetups
• Does Mysticism need Community? If so, what kind?
• New Friendship Room: Let’s Talk about Spirituality, Religion, Mysticism, Philosophy, Science, and Life

Compassion

The Compassion of the Christ-Buddha-Atman-Al-Insān al-Kāmil-Messiah-Zhenren-Tirthankara

Confucianism

Overcoming Ego and Transforming Self in Confucianism & Taoism

Consciousness

• The Duality of Consciousness Remains Nondual: Jesus’ Intercessory Prayer, John 17 (BHT)
• Wave Analogies of Consciousness, Mind, and Ultimate Reality
• How Our Mind May Construct our Sense of Separation from God
• God is the Consciousness that is Always Present in Us
• Pure Consciousness is True Self, Ultimate Reality, and Absolute Truth
• Apprehending the Infinite in the Finite?
• The Saving Power of “Christ” Consciousness
• The Speed of Light in the Vacuum of Consciousness
• What is Consciousness? A Cosmic Mystical Perspective
• The Mysticism of the Hard Problem of Consciousness
• The Glory of God is Consciousness
• Qualia, Consciousness, Christ, and Cosmos
• Is the Universe Made of Consciousness?
• Which comes first? Consciousness or Matter?
• Our Loss of Mystical Consciousness

Death

• Is Heaven Realized at Death? Are Memories Retained? Why All This?
• What Will I Feel Like After Death?
• The Downside of the Experience of God
• Die Before You Die: A Mystical Approach to Depression and Suicidal Thoughts
• Is Physical Death the Death of our Individual Personhood?
• The Two Deaths in Mystical Christianity
• We WILL Surely Die
• Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep

Duality

• The Duality of Consciousness Remains Nondual: Jesus’ Intercessory Prayer, John 17 (BHT)
• Is Bliss a State of Mind? The Knowing of Opposites, and Gnosing of the Whole
• How Extremes Can Turn into their Shadow Opposite, or Reveal Transcendent Unity
• Is there Joy without Misery? Good without Sin/Evil?
• Mystical Unity in Nonduality does Not Mean Uniformity in Duality
• Our Mystical Dualistic Nature as Human-Divine

Ego

• No-Self in the East, in the Bible, and Book of Mormon
• The Privilege of Spiritual Retreats: An Ego Trip?
• Paul/Silas? our Super Hero Identity vs. our Alter/Secret Identity
• Is There a “Healthy” Ego?
• Is Sam Harris Unaware of “No-Self” in Jesus’ Sacrifice?
• Ego Dissolution or No Ego Dissolution?
• What Good is the Ego-Self?
• Self-Sacrifice Does Not Mean Self-Hatred
• Ego Sacrifice & Transcendence a Common Theme in World Religions and Science
• The Evolution of Ego in the Allegory of Adam & Eve
• Sacrificing Ego Consciousness In the World’s Religions & Science
• Our Two Selves in Life
• The Ego & the True Human
• Non-Self Reveals the True Self
• What is the “Natural Man”?
• A Key for the “Natural Man”
• The Falling Away of Ego Consciousness in Hinduism and Buddhism
• Sacrificing Ego-Self in Judaism and Christianity
• The Neuroscience of Ego Dissolution and Transcendence
• Ego Transcendence in Secular Science

Eternal Life

• What is “Eternal Life”? A Mystical Perspective
• What is “Eternal Life”?

Evil

• Who is “the Devil”? A Mystical Interpretation
• A Mystical Perspective on the Problem of Evil

Evolution

• Humans Were Not the Plan, and We’re Not the End of the Evolving God
• The Evolution of Ego in the Allegory of Adam & Eve
• The Godhead in the Light of Evolution
• “If Evolution is True, The Church is False”?
• You are a Colony of 70 Trillion Organisms
• Video: Where Did Life Come From?

Faith

• Thoughts about “From Naïveté to Wisdom,” the Pattern of the Spiritual Journey
• Beliefs vs. Reality

Fall

• Overcoming Separation is the Spiritual-Mystical Journey
• Why Do we Feel Separate from God/Reality?
• A Psychological and Mystical Interpretation of the Myth of Adam & Eve and the Garden of Eden
• The Evolution of Ego in the Allegory of Adam & Eve
• What is the Fall?

First Visions

• #48 Freeman Dyson’s “First Vision” Account
• #47 Jordan Bates’ “First Vision” Account
• #46 Josh Radnor’s “First Vision” Account
• #45 David R. Hawkins’ “First Vision” Account
• #44 Julie M. Brown’s “First Vision” Account
• #43 Douglas Harding’s “First Vision” Account
• #42 Kundalini-like “First Vision” Account
• #41 Science Mike’s “First Vision” Account
• Yet another “First Vision” Account from St. Symeon the New Theologian
• Another “First Vision” Account from St. Symeon the New Theologian
• Pope Francis’ “First Vision” Account
• Richard Bucke’s “First Vision” Account
• Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “First Vision” Account
• Annie Dillard’s “First Vision” Account
• John van Ruysbroeck’s “First Vision” Accounts
• Bahá’u’lláh’s “First Vision” Account
• All-Encompassing Light “First Vision” Accounts
• Armella Nicolas’s “First Vision” Account
• Symeon the New Theologian’s “First Vision” Account
• Joannes Stobaeus’ “First Vision” Account
• Saint Teresa of Ávila’s “First Vision” Accounts
• Walt Whitman’s “First Vision” Accounts
• Henry David Thoreau’s “First Vision” Account
• Nancy Clark’s “First Vision” Accounts
• Sophia von Klingnau’s “First Vision” Account
• Rabindranath Tagore’s “First Vision” Account
• Morgan Freeman’s “First Vision” Account
• Thomas Merton’s “First Vision” Account
• Clark Heinrich’s “First Vision” Account
• What are we to make of these “First Vision” accounts?
• AA Co-Founder Bill Wilson’s “First Vision” Account
• Martin Buber’s “First Vision” Account
• Ueshiba’s “First Vision” Account
• Dante’s “First Vision” Account
• Muktabai’s “First Vision” Account
• Shankara’s “First Vision” Account
• St. Augustine’s “First Vision” Account
• Incorporeal Radiance “First Vision” Account
• Eternal Fire “First Vision” Account
• Oceanic Light “First Vision” Account
• Can We Have A “First Vision” Experience?
• Eugène Ionesco’s “First Vision” Account
• Norris Stearns “First Vision” Account
• Golden Light “First Vision” Account
• Hellen Keller’s “First Vision” Account
• Unbounded Space “First Vision” Account
• Heaven’s Cradle “First Vision” Account
• Blazing Light “First Vision” Account
• Increasing Pleasantness “First Vision” Account
• Suhrawardi’s “First Vision” Account

Free Will

Is There Free Will in Mysticism?

Gift Economy

The Next Chapter of ThyMindOMan.com: Living in the Gift

God

• Is God Personal? A Mystical View
• What is God? What is Sin? A Mystical View
• God is the Transcendent IN the Immanent
• Is it possible to “know” an Absolute, like God?
• Does God have a Face? A Mystical Perspective
• What is the Mystical “Light of God”?
• God is the Consciousness that is Always Present in Us
• The Downside of the Experience of God
• Our Mystical Dualistic Nature as Human-Divine
• Is “God” a Black-White Hole Singularity? The Mysticism of Cosmology
• A Mystical Reinterpretation of the Mormon (Christian) view of the Nature of God
• Only God Knows God?
• David Bentley Hart on “How Can We Know God?”
• Is God a Male Human, or Two Males, or maybe Three? Do I hear Four? Or is it More?
• Is God or Christ a Male?
• Reconstructing Mormonism’s “God the Father”
• What does it mean to be “a god”?
• Jordan Peterson & Sam Harris Debate the Nature of God
• Does Seeing God Cause Death to the Person?
• We are Already God, We’ve Just Forgotten
• Our Ideas of God Are Not God
• Only God Can See God
• “God Is the Very Self of Each of Us” by Rupert Spira
• Learning how to be a God
• The Godhead in the Light of Evolution
• Our Minds Paint Our Pictures of God
• Is God a Person?
• What is the Relationship between God and Divine Law?
• Emerson’s Poem, Gnothi Seauton (Know Thyself)
• God Wakes

Healing

Derren Brown: “Faith Healing” as Psychospiritual Transformation

Hinduism

• The Falling Away of Ego Consciousness in Hinduism and Buddhism
• The Inner Light of Crystalline Clarity

Humans

• Our Mystical Dualistic Nature as Human-Divine
• Humans Were Not the Plan, and We’re Not the End of the Evolving God

Identity

Our Two Identities in Life, and Realizing the Greater One

Imperfection

Being Perfect in our Imperfections: The Wounds of God

Incarnation

• “Matter is Spirit Moving Slowly”: The Incarnation of Spirit-Energy into Matter
• The Divine Incarnation in Modern Physics?

Islam

• The Passing Away of Ego-Self in Islam
• “A Thousand Sweet Breaths of Silence” by Rumi

Judaism

• My Interpretations of the Divine that differ from Traditional Judeo-Christianity
• The many “Christs” and “Messiahs” that preceded Jesus
• A Mystical Interpretation of the Messiah Rebuilding the Temple, or Christ Coming to the Temple
• Sacrificing Ego-Self in Judaism and Christianity
• YHWH project

Knowledge

• When New Thoughts Conflict with Old Thoughts
• The Limits of Intellectual Thought & Knowledge

Language

• The Modern Transformation of Religious Language
• The Value of the Written Word for Good, for Love in Action?
• “I Did Not Write This”: the Mysticism of Spiritual Writing
• Holy, Whole, Health, Heal: Words of our Oneness or Nonduality
• Does Language Construct Reality, or our Perception of Reality?
• The Mystic’s Dilemma
• Is there a better word for “God”?

Love

• How is Love the Ultimate Reality?
• What is God’s Love? Is it Unconditional? A Mystical View
• Why Love Another? What for? Mysticism Doesn’t Just Tell Us—It Shows Us!
• What is Love? per Rupert Spira

Magic

Derren Brown: “Faith Healing” as Psychospiritual Transformation

Meditation

• The “Ahman Prayer”: Toward a Mormon Contemplative Practice
• The Privilege of Spiritual Retreats: An Ego Trip?
• How I Welcome Spirit Into My Life: My Contemplative Practice & Retreat Experience
• Why Does Meditation Take so Long to see Results, to Awaken?
• Learning Vipassana: My First Guided Meditation on Methods Podcast
• Notes on “Contemplation” from a Lecture with Fr. Laurence Freeman
• A Word about Guided Meditations
• What Is Meditation? per Eckhart Tolle
• The Brain Science behind Meditation, a Book and Interview with Culadasa
• How to “Do” Nothing
• Daniel Goleman on The Many Benefits of Meditation
• How to Meditate – An Animation
• The Meaning of Contemplation
• David O. McKay: Meditate to Enter God’s Presence
• How Meditation & Seer Stones Might Lead to a Clear Mind & Divine Revelations

Mindfulness

Democratizing “Mindfulness” is a Positive Movement if we go Deeper

Morality

• “Mystical Morality is Relative, not Absolute,” my dog said
• Transmorality in Mysticism
• Relative Truth, Knowledge, and Morals in Mormonism, Law, and Mysticism

Mormonism

• The Talismanic “Gold” Plates of Joseph Smith
• Joseph Smith’s First Vision in “Lehi’s” Vision of the Tree of Life: Part 1
• God “Pointed”/”Touched” Joseph Smith’s Eyes in the First Vision, Revealing the “Beloved Son” in Him
• No-Self in the East, in the Bible, and Book of Mormon
• Where Art Thou, O God of Mormonism?
• My Conversation with Glenn Ostlund about Mysticism
• Joseph Smith as Nephi: Parallels in retrieving the Gold/Brass Plates
• A New Facebook Group “Reconstructing Mormonism”
• Joseph Smith’s Mystical Christification in the First Vision
• The Mystical and Archetypal Nature of a “Heavenly Book” and Joseph Smith’s “Gold Plates”
• The “Ahman Prayer”: Toward a Mormon Contemplative Practice
• Joseph Smith’s First Vision in the Book of Mormon: The Earliest Accounts?
• Joseph Losing the “Plates” and “Interpreters” was Mystical not Literal
• The First Vision of Moroni
• Early Secondhand Details about Joseph Smith’s First Vision in 1830-1833?
• Joseph Smith’s First Vision, BHT: A New Translation
• An Introduction to the BHT Translation of Joseph Smith’s First Vision
• Was Joseph Smith intentionally deceitful or lying about the “Gold Plates”? A Mystical View
• Is There Any Way that the Book of Mormon is “Historical”? A Mystical & Perennialist Perspective
• The LDS “Prophet” Shares 5 “Absolute Truths”? My Commentary
• The Glory of God is Consciousness
• A Mystical Reinterpretation of the Mormon (Christian) view of the Nature of God
• The Mystical State of Consciousness in Joseph Smith’s First Vision
• Reconstructing the narrative surrounding the origins of the Book of Mormon
• Reconstructing the narrative surrounding Joseph Smith
• Reconstructing Joseph Smith’s “First Vision”
• Reconstructing Mormonism’s “Holy Ghost”
• Reconstructing Mormonism’s and Christianity’s Jesus/Christ
• “Canticle of the Sun,” by St. Francis of Assisi, and Joseph Smith’s “Olive Leaf”
• Reconstructing Mormonism’s “God the Father”
• A Radical Reconstruction of the Mormon Narrative (and Christianity)
• The “Hidden Treasure” of God in Mormonism and Buddhism
• The Book of Mormon as Literary Alchemy: Joseph’s Magnum Opus and the Philosopher’s Stone
• Misreading Scripture as Literal History: Elephants in the Book of Mormon
• Joseph Smith’s “Sinking” Into the Darkest Abyss to Commune with God
• The Non-Historical Book of Mormon is More Than A Mere Fairy Tale
• The Book of Mormon as Terma, and Joseph Smith as Tertön
• The Mysticism of Joseph Smith
• The film Split (2016), Joseph Smith & the Book of Mormon
• David O. McKay: Meditate to Enter God’s Presence
• “If Evolution is True, The Church is False”?
• Didn’t the First Vision Reveal the True Nature of God?
• How Meditation & Seer Stones Might Lead to a Clear Mind & Divine Revelations
• Where can we find the New Covenant?
• God’s Mystical Greeting in Joseph Smith’s First Vision
• The Divine Light of a Lowly Farmer Boy
• The veil was lifted, and he saw the Lord’s finger
• Video Presentation: “The Mystical Core of Mormonism: A Very Brief Introduction”
• “Who Am I?” The Simulation Hypothesis Mindfully and Mormonly Reconsidered
• Missionary encounters with people who had divine interactions
• The Mystical Core of Mormonism: A Very Brief Introduction

Mortality

• Thoughts about “From Naïveté to Wisdom,” the Pattern of the Spiritual Journey
• “What is the point of it all?”

Mysticism/Mystical Experience

• Therapeutic Benefits of Mysticism
• My Conversation with Glenn Ostlund about Mysticism
• The Downside of the Experience of God
• Nihilism in the Light of Mystical Experience
• Religion vs Mysticism: A Taste Test
• A Conversation on Mysticism between Wayne Teasdale and Ken Wilber
• Reconstructing Joseph Smith’s “First Vision”
• Notes on Christian Mysticism from a Seminar with Bernard McGinn
• My Thoughts on the New Age, and How It Differs from Mysticism
• The Mysticism of Falling into a Black Hole
• The Meaning of the Word “Mystical”
• Sam Harris talks with Michael Pollan about Psychedelics and Mystical-Spiritual Experience
• Is Spiritual Purification like Polishing the Tile of the Mind?
• Mystical Experience is Christianity’s Savior
• What is Religious Experience For?
• Our Loss of Mystical Consciousness
• Mysticism is Experience of the Real
• I Am Not My…
• Mystical Experience is Christianity’s Savior
• The Mystical Core of Mormonism: A Very Brief Introduction

Mythology/Archetypes

• The Mystical and Archetypal Nature of a “Heavenly Book” and Joseph Smith’s “Gold Plates”
• The World is Made by the Trickster
• When Myths turn from “True” to “False” and a New Mysticomodern Myth

Name

The Mystical Practice of Receiving a New Name

Nature

• A Mystical Perspective on the Climate Emergency
• Super Natural, not Supernatural or Unnatural
• The Kosmic One Endows Us the Energy to Be and to Act
• The Mysticism of Relativity and the Absolute
• Falling in Love with the Earth is Knowing God and our Self: A Commentary on Thich Nhat Hanh and Climate Change

Nihilism

Nihilism in the Light of Mystical Experience

Nonduality

• The Duality of Consciousness Remains Nondual: Jesus’ Intercessory Prayer, John 17 (BHT)
• Is there Joy without Misery? Good without Sin/Evil?
• The Nondual Scientific and Mystical Reality of our Self
• Mystical Unity in Nonduality does Not Mean Uniformity in Duality

Original Sin

Original Sin and Nonduality

Paranormal/Parapsychology

The Problem with ESP, the Paranormal, and Parapsychology: A Mystical View

Patriotism/Nationalism

Patriotism as Ethnocentrism? A Mystical Perspective

Perennialism

• Infographic—The Perennial Cycle of Religions: Mysticism to Politics v1.0
• The Perennial Cycle from Mysticism to Religion to Politics
• The Mystical “Messiah” in the World’s Traditions
• Eight Points of Agreement of Perennial Wisdom from Contemplatives of Eight World Religions

Philosophy

• If we are already One, what is there to do?
• The Inverse Proportional Paradox of Seeing Outwardly and Inwardly
• Is it possible to “know” an Absolute, like God?
• Trinitarian Symbolism in terms of other Metaphysical Philosophy, Theology, and Science
• Apprehending the Infinite in the Finite?
• Considering the Mind-Body Problem Mystically
• Dual-Aspect Monism, Neuroscience, and Mysticism
• “What is the point of it all?”
• Jason Silva on The Infinite
• The Influx of the Divine Mind into our Mind
• The Soaring Flight of our Mind’s Divine Communion
• Watch “How Is Everything Interconnected?” on YouTube
• Jordan Peterson & Sam Harris Debate the Nature of God

Physicalism/Materialism

• The Divine Incarnation in Modern Physics?
• Is our Brain the Source of our Life? Is Matter the Source of Mind/Spirit? A Contemplative Mysticism View

Poetry

• “I AM You”
• “The Web of Life” by Robert T. Weston
• Have You Heard?
• The Fire and the Rose are One
• i thank You God for most this amazing
• Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
• “Christ Has No Body But Yours,” a Poem
• We Awaken in Christ’s Body, by Symeon
• Emerson’s Poem, Gnothi Seauton (Know Thyself)
• God Wakes
• “A Thousand Sweet Breaths of Silence” by Rumi

Pop Culture

• The Mysticism of Disney/Pixar’s “Soul”
• The Mysticism of Frozen II: Part 4, Into the Unknown
• The Mysticism of “I See the Light” in Disney’s Tangled
• The Mysticism of Frozen II: Part 3, The Philosophical Problem of Change
• The Mysticism of Frozen II: Part 2, The Lullaby
• The Mysticism of Frozen II: Part 1, Introduction & Opening Myth
• “Radical Honesty”: What if we told the truth?
• The Mysticism of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”
• The Mysticism of The Wizard of Oz: Our Journey Home
• A Mystical Commentary on “The Bells” in HBO’s Game of Thrones: The World is on Fire and Humanity is Dying!
• A Divine “Celebration of Life” in The Greatest Showman’s Soundtrack!
• “Embracing Otherness, Embracing Myself” by Thandie Newton
• Groundhog Day’s “I’m a god”

Postmodernism

Postmodernism and the Absolute in Mysticism

Premortality

The Mysticism of “Past Lives” or “Premortality”: Two Perspectives

Priesthood

On Lineages and Transmissions of Mystical Knowledge and Spiritual Power

Proselytism

The Problem with Traditional Proselytism: A Mystical Perspective

Psychedelics/Entheogens

• Sam Harris talks with Michael Pollan about Psychedelics and Mystical-Spiritual Experience
• The Neuroscience of Ego Dissolution and Transcendence

Psychology

A Psychological and Mystical Interpretation of the Myth of Adam & Eve and the Garden of Eden

Reality

• Wave Analogies of Consciousness, Mind, and Ultimate Reality
• Pure Consciousness is True Self, Ultimate Reality, and Absolute Truth

Relativity

The Mysticism of Relativity and the Absolute

Religion

• The Modern Transformation of Religious Language
• The Perennial Cycle from Mysticism to Religion to Politics
• The Mystical “Messiah” in the World’s Traditions
• Religion vs Mysticism: A Taste Test
• Eight Points of Agreement of Perennial Wisdom from Contemplatives of Eight World Religions
• What is the “true” church?
• Beliefs vs. Reality
• Mapping The World’s Religious and Secular Symbols
• A Thesis for the Church
• What is Priesthood and Ordination?
• Should Spirituality be Organized?

Resurrection/Reincarnation

• We are already Resurrected, we just haven’t realized it
• The Mystical Resurrection or Reincarnation of the Ocean in every Wave
• A Bodily Resurrection of Jesus? or of Christ? A Mystical View
• Paul and the Early Jewish Christians’ Mystical Resurrection “in” Christ
• Resurrecting the Resurrection in Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris
• Four Types or Stages of Resurrection
• Margaret Barker on the Radical Original Understanding of Resurrection
• Excerpts from Symeon’s Discourse on the “Mystical Resurrection of Christ”
• What does Resurrection mean for our Physical Body?
• What is the Resurrection?

Sacrament/Eucharist

What is the Sacrament, Communion, or Eucharist?

Salvation/Awakening

• A Mystical View of Universal Salvation
• The Saving Power of “Christ” Consciousness
• The Mythological Messiah and its Mystical Qualities
• The Mystical “Messiah” in the World’s Traditions

Science

• God Is In the Black Hole
• The Divine Incarnation in Modern Physics?
• Can we unify General Relativity and Quantum Theory through Classical Mysticism?
• Solving E=mc² for Spacetime, and its Mystical Implications
• The Unification of Mass-Energy and Spacetime?
• The Mystical Nature of Objects and Movement as the Exchange of Energy in a Static Field
• The Impasse of Explaining the Whole Scientifically or Theologically
• The Mystical Impasse in the Unification of Dualistic Physics
• Dual-Aspect Monism, Neuroscience, and Mysticism
• The Speed of Light in the Vacuum of Consciousness
• Energy and Matter are that Holy One
• Niels Bohr, a founder of quantum mechanics, was a Mystic
• Science versus Spirituality? A False Dualism
• The Kosmic One Endows Us the Energy to Be and to Act
• The Radical Irony of Mystical Experience: The Overview Effect of the Divine
• Is “God” a Black-White Hole Singularity? The Mysticism of Cosmology
• Bringing “God” into the 21st Century through Science and Mysticism
• Is Spirituality compatible with Science? Mysticism may be Key
• By finding Nothing, we find Everything
• A Map of Reality
• You are a Colony of 70 Trillion Organisms
• Beliefs vs. Reality
• The Mysticism of Falling into a Black Hole
• The Neuroscience of Ego Dissolution and Transcendence
• Ego Transcendence in Secular Science
• Video: Where Did Life Come From?
• Einstein’s Misquote on the Illusion of Feeling Separate from the Whole
• “One Song: The Science of Oneness” by JD Stillwater
• “Science & Spirituality” a TEDx talk by Jeff Lieberman
• The Godhead in the Light of Evolution
• “If Evolution is True, The Church is False”?
• SciShow Psych Video on Near-Death Experiences
• A Theory of Everything?
• Science & Nonduality (SAND) Conference
• Max Tegmark on Consciousness: “The Final Frontier of Science”
• Seeing Ourselves Between Saturn’s Rings
• Einstein on the “Cosmic Religious Feeling”
• Lawrence Krauss on the Nature of Reality
• Sam Harris Talks Favorably of Jesus?
• Ego Sacrifice & Transcendence a Common Theme in World Religions and Science
• Sacrificing Ego Consciousness In the World’s Religions & Science
• Jordan Peterson & Sam Harris Debate the Nature of God
• The Brain Science behind Meditation, a Book and Interview with Culadasa
• Sam Harris talks with Michael Pollan about Psychedelics and Mystical-Spiritual Experience

Scriptures

(See my BHT translation of the scriptures at this link.)

• Tao Te Ching, Chapter 1 BHT
• Joseph Smith’s First Vision in “Lehi’s” Vision of the Tree of Life: Part 1
• Misattributed St. Francis Quote “The One You Are Looking For…”?
• A Mystical Interpretation of Jesus’ Parable of the Tares
• Joseph Smith’s First Vision, BHT: A New Translation
• An Introduction to the BHT Translation of Joseph Smith’s First Vision
• Be Ye Perfect? or Be Ye Whole? A Mystical Translation
• Continual Reinterpretation of Sacred Texts is Imperative
• The Glory of God is Consciousness
• Did the Ancient Prophets write Literally or Metaphorically?
• An Introduction to the Bryce Haymond Translation (BHT)

Second Coming

• Jesus isn’t coming, but Christ is already here
• The Spiritual Fire of Thy Kingdom Come and Coming
• What is the Second Coming?

Sin

What is God? What is Sin? A Mystical View

Spirit

• “Matter is Spirit Moving Slowly”: The Incarnation of Spirit-Energy into Matter
• Reconstructing Mormonism’s “Holy Ghost”
• What is the Spirit or Soul?

Surrender

In Mysticism, what is Submission or Surrender?

Taoism

Overcoming Ego and Transforming Self in Confucianism & Taoism

Temple

• Temple or No Temple: Where does God Really Live?
• A Mystical Interpretation of the Messiah Rebuilding the Temple, or Christ Coming to the Temple

True Self

• Pure Consciousness is True Self, Ultimate Reality, and Absolute Truth
• The Nondual Scientific and Mystical Reality of our Self
• Coming Out as our True Self
• Our Deeper Source & Self
• Paul/Silas? our Super Hero Identity vs. our Alter/Secret Identity
• Richard Rohr on Discovering our True Self
• Non-Self Reveals the True Self

Truth

• The LDS “Prophet” Shares 5 “Absolute Truths”? My Commentary
• “Radical Honesty”: What if we told the truth?
• Letting go of our “truth” is how we find the Truth
• The Tension between Absolute Knowing and Mystical Uncertainty
• Is the Truth Really Found “Within”?

Universe

• Are we Alone in the Universe? A Mystical Perspective
• Energy and Matter are that Holy One
• Qualia, Consciousness, Christ, and Cosmos
• The Mysticism of Falling into a Black Hole

Veil

The Inverse Proportional Paradox of Seeing Outwardly and Inwardly

Vision

My Vision for the World

Writing

• The Value of the Written Word for Good, for Love in Action?
• “I Did Not Write This”: the Mysticism of Spiritual Writing